Joseph L. Mankiewicz's bad taste, exhibited with verve, is more fun than careful, mousy, dehydrated good taste. His nonsense about "theatre" is saved by one performance that is the real thing: Bette Davis is at her most instinctive and assured.

| Jul 28, 2022

You'll want to see All Abut Eve a couple of times.

| Jul 26, 2022

The script is well capable of carrying out the film's intentions -- it is, indeed, an admirable piece of work and not lacking in wit.

| Feb 17, 2022

So breath-takingly sharp and tense a story of the theater could hardly be so vital without some fragments of truth In its background.

| Apr 6, 2021

All About Eve is undoubtedly the best picture of the year, even better than Sunset Boulevard.

| Apr 6, 2021

A scintillating, stimulating, extraordinary achievement.

| Apr 2, 2021

Get a baby-sitter and go see this one. Unfortunately, Hollywood doesn't turn out enough films of this calibre.

| Apr 2, 2021

It is so well and amusingly written that, in spite of its enormous length the obvious artificiality of its plot, and the flagrant exaggeration of its only-too-wicked people, it never really flags.

| Apr 2, 2021

It is a joy to hear consistently witty and biting dialogue on the screen, spoken by actors who use the lines to color and shape their performances so they emerge as vivid, full-blown persons.

| Apr 2, 2021

All About Eve is one of the smartest pictures of all time.

| Apr 2, 2021

[Joseph L. Mankiewicz] has produced a film that is completely sophisticated and consistently scintillating, head and shoulders above any original script I have encountered.

| Apr 1, 2021

Never has a film, both in story and in technique, been brought more closely to the stage than All About Eve... Its appeal and its success depend almost entirely on gesture and conversation.

| Feb 5, 2020

All About Eve is in essence a play fabricated into celluloid with absolutely no feeling for pictorial style or form.

| Feb 5, 2020

All About Eve ranks among the smartest comedy-dramas in many, many years.

| Feb 19, 2019

It is similar to a good many films that have gone before it, but Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who wrote and directed the picture, has been so ingenious in his treatment of the subject that he has come up with a thoroughly entertaining movie.

| Sep 6, 2018

All About Eve is not only a brilliant and clever portrait of an actress, it is a downright funny film, from its opening scene to the final fadeout.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 22, 2015

Joseph L Mankiewicz's film dissects the narcissism and hypocrisy of the spotlight as sharply as [Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd], but pays equal attention to the challenges of enacting womanhood.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 22, 2015

Joseph Mankiewicz was Hollywood's midcentury master of comic drama, and All About Eve, from 1950, was one of his signal achievements.

| Feb 25, 2014

What makes the picture seem so good (what makes it eminently worth seeing) is the satirical touches in its detail and the performance of Bette Davis.

| Jan 23, 2013

All About Eve looks into Broadway's artichoke heart to ring an early death knell for classic Hollywood.

| Feb 12, 2011